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Question 1

What was Gandhis concept of satygraha

Answer 1

Used it to describe non-violent resistance to injustice or evil.

Question 2

What did Gandhi believe would make people much happier

Answer 2

If they lived in small self-contained communities.

Question 3

Why was Gandhi are so popular with the lower classes

Answer 3

Because he increasingly adopted a peasant lifestyle making him much more relatable to the lower classes

Question 4

What were the three things that lead Gandhi to change his mind and develop the idea of swaraj

Answer 4

The role of acts. The Amritsar massacre. And his worry regarding the increase in the idea of separateness among Muslims and Hindus.

Question 5

By 1920 who had emerged as leader of the Indian national congress party

Answer 5

Gandhi

Question 6

In a Congress meeting held in Nagpur in December 1920 what did Congress vote for

Answer 6

They voted to support Gandhi and his non-cooperation campaign with the Raj

Question 7

What are examples of some of the things Gandhi urge people to do as part of his first non-cooperation campaign

Answer 7

Boycott elections. Remove children from government schools. With old taxes. Refused to buy imported goods.

Question 8

Why was his non-cooperation campaign not success

Answer 8

Because millions of Indians were unwilling or unable to understand the morality underpinning the concept of satygraha